8th-annual-byc-new-years-day-2017-hatch-a-long

[N F C]

8-week old failure to thrive?? Ugh. I have one at 3-1/2 weeks, keep expecting to find it dead, but she hangs in there. Sorry for your loss.
I'm also hoping to wait until closer to spring, but new layers have me chomping at the bit!!

Hope your little one will hang in there and get stronger with time.

 

[N F C]

I had to laugh this morning when I found our first pip. The hen responsible for it is always the first one to greet me in the morning (and anytime I'm out in the yard) with all kinds of information. Her name "Peanut" is short for Peanut Gallery - always a comment coming from that one! So, of course, her chick would be the first one to greet me at hatching time!

Too funny! I used to have a SS named Peanut, she was a fun little girl. Hope you'll share a picture when your little one makes an appearance!

 

[ronott1]

Mixed feelings tonight. Eggs are looking good and in lockdown (remember, early shipment), but we had to cull one of our chicks from our Dec 1 hatch whose legs, no matter what we tried (and I feel like we tried just about everything) , just got worse and worse. Special thanks to @BantyChooks
for the support and great article on the most humane way to do this.

It is sad when one has to be culled. There is not a lot that can be done sometimes.

 

[ronott1]

Well guys I'm late to the party and not hatching this year but hopefully next new years I can join. In the meantime I'm going to live vicariously through all of you and sit on my hands so I don't mistakenly put some eggs under a broody silkie we currently have.

our oldest chicks from a BYC friend are 5 weeks on Thursday and dh2b and I sorta agreed to wait until spring. Still chicks just break the monotony of the dead of winter up so well. ... Plus this morning we went out and found my 8 week old failure to thrive cuckoo Orpington chick that had finally been doing well the last few weeks dead this morning.

what a bummer. Poor little thing. It looks like maybe it got squashed in a cuddle puddle although it had caught up and surpassed the size of the 4-5 week olds. Such is life. I have one more in the group of 4-5 week olds hopefully it's a pullet.

So everyone bring on the candling and hatching pics and stories sorry to take over the thread I'm just dieing here lol.

Aaah...It is so sad when they make it so long and then fail like that!

Here is a candling video from an old hatch I had.

 

[pioneerchick816]

Yeah!! Pip pics! Thanks @orrpeople

 

[teaton]

I had to laugh this morning when I found our first pip. The hen responsible for it is always the first one to greet me in the morning (and anytime I'm out in the yard) with all kinds of information. Her name "Peanut" is short for Peanut Gallery - always a comment coming from that one! So, of course, her chick would be the first one to greet me at hatching time!

Woo Hoo!!!

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Mixed feelings tonight. Eggs are looking good and in lockdown (remember, early shipment), but we had to cull one of our chicks from our Dec 1 hatch whose legs, no matter what we tried (and I feel like we tried just about everything) , just got worse and worse. Special thanks to @BantyChooks for the support and great article on the most humane way to do this.

I had one just the same this past spring.

I had to laugh this morning when I found our first pip. The hen responsible for it is always the first one to greet me in the morning (and anytime I'm out in the yard) with all kinds of information. Her name "Peanut" is short for Peanut Gallery - always a comment coming from that one! So, of course, her chick would be the first one to greet me at hatching time!

Well guys I'm late to the party and not hatching this year but hopefully next new years I can join. In the meantime I'm going to live vicariously through all of you and sit on my hands so I don't mistakenly put some eggs under a broody silkie we currently have. our oldest chicks from a BYC friend are 5 weeks on Thursday and dh2b and I sorta agreed to wait until spring. Still chicks just break the monotony of the dead of winter up so well. ... Plus this morning we went out and found my 8 week old failure to thrive cuckoo Orpington chick that had finally been doing well the last few weeks dead this morning. what a bummer. Poor little thing. It looks like maybe it got squashed in a cuddle puddle although it had caught up and surpassed the size of the 4-5 week olds. Such is life. I have one more in the group of 4-5 week olds hopefully it's a pullet. So everyone bring on the candling and hatching pics and stories sorry to take over the thread I'm just dieing here lol.

Aaah...It is so sad when they make it so long and then fail like that! Here is a candling video from an old hatch I had.

That's a fantastic video!

 

[Jaromo99]

Here's mine! 11 of em. Don't know breed at all. Or even species for sure on some of them..... Set 5 days ago for the biggest 2, 4 days ago for the other 9.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Anyone have a duck recipe? I have too many drakes (poor duck hens)

Some of the cooking sites or some of the duck hatcheries have several.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/crisp-roast-duck-235744

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/roast-duck-recipe.html

http://www.mapleleaffarms.com/duck-recipes

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I started a new Hatch-a-Long for hatching by the moon. This will run throughout 2017.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1146509/2017-zodiac-hatch-a-long